I can't help but—whenever an absurd situation is created—kind of think about what it would be like to actually live it and the feelings that it would pull out of you. And so that is where I think the the pathos of Octodad as an imposter in this world comes from, and the kind of absurdity that human life has when you're a tentacle being. Right, like as an outsider looking in. Because I think that that's what comedy is good at, is drawing out the empathy of absurd situations.

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